This is from a Private Estate in Like New Condition. This is a hardcover book with the original dust jacket.  The dust jacket has some normal scuffs from storage on the dust jacket but the book and pages are still in great shape. 

First Edition

Edward Victor was one of the finest magicians who ever lived, and he has influenced the work of almost every close-up magician working today - whether they know it or not. Dai Vernon and Ed Marlo, among many others, owed a major debt to the work of Edward Victor, whose creations include the famous "Eleven-Card Trick," and whose tricks inspired Vernon's "Spellbound" and "Coins and Champagne Glass," and whose sleights inspired "Tilt," "Convincing Control," and many others. He was one of the major forces in magic of the 20th century. His story and magic are fascinating. 

Written over a twenty-year period by Mr. Rae Hammond, friend and confidant of Edward Vicktor, this massive oversized book (over 250 pages) brings together a fascinating collection of magic and biography. It contains most of Edward Victor's many tricks contributed to periodicals and other books, his marketed items, as well as unpublished routines from his private notebooks. It traces the story of his life with many unique photographs and other bits of memorabilia that recall the glory of a golden age. There's even a chapter on his shadowgraphy. 

Publisher Richard Kaufman has added his special touch through editing and design that make this truly a book to treasure and learn from for many years to come. It is sewn to life open flat for easy learning, printed on acid-free paper with a laminated dust jacket that will protect it for years, with almost 100 photographs and 250 drawings by Joseph K. Schmidt. Only Richard Kaufman guarantees this kind of quality publication.